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1. Congratulations on the release of “My Matricidal.” The song explores the idea of confronting uncomfortable truths rather than simply focusing on betrayal. What first inspired that concept?
The concept came from something most of us experience several times throughout our lives: the realization that discovering the truth is only the beginning of a conflict.
How many times have we continued a relationship despite knowing it was wrong for us? How many times have we made a decision while already understanding that it would lead us somewhere we should not go? People often say they want honesty, but what they truly want is a version of reality that allows them to remain comfortable. Real truth destroys that comfort. It demands a decision.
Within the story, my character Lilith discovers that the people closest to her have built her life upon deception. The betrayal is devastating, but the deeper question is what she will become once that illusion has been destroyed. Will she surrender to what happened, allow it to define her, or use the revelation as the beginning of her transformation?
That idea extends beyond the narrative. Every person eventually encounters a truth that changes how they understand themselves, their relationships or the world around them. What they do next reveals far more than the truth itself. Sometimes that revelation can be devastating, like discovering that the child you raised has become the one who kills you.
2. Lilith has said that the real question isn’t discovering the truth, but deciding what to do once it’s revealed. How does that philosophy connect with DOGMA’s wider artistic vision?
DOGMA is built around personal judgment and individual sovereignty. Our work constantly examines the conflict between what people are taught to obey and what they discover when they begin thinking for themselves.
Truth exists independently of our wishes, but human beings rarely encounter the entirety of a situation from a single perspective. To judge as objectively and justly as possible, we need facts, context and the accounts of everyone involved. Listening to every account does not mean that every account is equally true. It gives reason the necessary material to distinguish fact from interpretation, responsibility from excuse and truth from manipulation.
The imagery of religion, confession and submission allows us to explore that conflict in a powerful way. A person can abandon one belief system and immediately submit to another. That is not freedom. Freedom requires the courage to examine what you believe, judge reality honestly, accept the consequences of your choices and take responsibility for the direction of your life.
Truth cannot save anyone by itself. It can only remove the illusion. What happens afterwards depends on the individual. Reason is the faculty that allows human beings to perceive reality, judge it and act in order to survive.
3. Your music videos seem to form an ongoing narrative rather than stand alone as individual releases. How important is visual storytelling to the DOGMA experience, and how does “My Matricidal” build on the story introduced in “Fate Unblinds”?
Visual storytelling is essential to DOGMA because the music, characters, videos and live performances all belong to the same universe. The songs must work independently, but each visual chapter reveals another part of Lilith’s journey and expands the mythology surrounding her.
DOGMA’s message is larger than any individual song. Each release functions as a chapter of a wider story, but those conflicts are also intended to feel recognizable. Betrayal, guilt, desire and denial are not confined to mythology. They appear in people’s lives whenever they refuse to confront a truth that prevents them from moving forward.
“Fate Unblinds” takes place after Lilith gives birth. It reveals that Dusk Messiah replaced her biological child, Light Messiah, with Dark Messiah. Lilith was deceived into raising Dark Messiah as her own, accepting a lie as though it were her destiny.
“My Matricidal” continues that corruption of family and trust. Lilith discovers an affair between Dark Messiah and her servant, Dusk Messiah, the two figures at the center of the original deception. Once they realize they have been exposed, they murder her.
The final moment changes the meaning of everything that came before it. Lilith awakens. We intentionally leave the nature of that awakening unanswered. The audience sees that she has returned, but they do not yet know what she has become or what consequences will follow.
4. DOGMA combines heavy riffs, cinematic soundscapes, theatrical performances, and symbolism into something that feels almost like a dark stage production. Where do you draw inspiration when creating that unique atmosphere?
The atmosphere comes from combining influences that treat beauty, danger, desire and authority with equal seriousness.
Musically, DOGMA draws from hard rock and melodic heavy metal, particularly the power of memorable riffs, strong choruses and melodic guitar work. The cinematic elements create a larger emotional environment around that foundation, while the ritual voices and arrangements give the music its ceremonial character.
Visually, we draw inspiration from sacred art, gothic architecture, dark cinema and high fashion. Caravaggio and Goya understood how light, violence and religious symbolism could coexist within a single image. Designers such as Eiko Ishioka showed how silhouette and clothing could communicate authority before a character even moved. Films including The Devils, Suspiria, The Witch and Eyes Wide Shut demonstrate how ritual can become simultaneously seductive and threatening.
We absorb those influences without reproducing them. The objective is to make DOGMA feel like an institution from its own mythology, rather than a conventional metal band using religious costumes.
5. The band has enjoyed an incredible year, selling out every European headline show and expanding your audience across Latin America. Has that success changed your approach to songwriting or reinforced your belief in what you’re creating?
It has reinforced our conviction.
Selling out every European headline show proved that people were connecting with the complete DOGMA experience. They were choosing to enter this world specifically for the music, the characters, the philosophy and the live ritual. The response throughout Latin America showed that the same language could cross cultures without losing its meaning or intensity.
Success also increases the responsibility behind every creative decision. Each new song must deserve its place. It needs a strong identity, memorable melodies, powerful riffs and an emotional or philosophical reason to exist.
Growth will not make DOGMA safer. It challenges us to become more precise, more ambitious and more disciplined in expressing what DOGMA has always represented.
6. Your live performances have developed a reputation for being immersive experiences rather than traditional concerts. What do you want audiences to feel when they leave a DOGMA show?
We want the experience to remain inside them after the final note.
A DOGMA performance should feel beautiful, dangerous, sensual and confrontational. The audience may leave exhilarated, disturbed, liberated or curious, but indifference would mean that the ritual failed.
The stage allows the songs, characters, imagery and philosophy to occupy the same space. For that moment, the audience is no longer simply watching musicians perform. They are witnessing the world of DOGMA become physical around them.
Ideally, they leave questioning something they had previously accepted without examination: a belief, a fear, a source of guilt or a desire they had been taught to suppress. DOGMA should remain in their thoughts long after the lights disappear.
They should also leave seduced, aroused and slightly afraid of what they have just witnessed.
7. The themes in your music often encourage listeners to question authority, belief systems, and personal convictions. Do you see DOGMA as storytellers, provocateurs, or something entirely different?
DOGMA is all of those things, but none of them fully describes the project.
We are storytellers because mythology allows us to explore desire, betrayal, freedom, guilt and transformation without reducing those ideas to a lecture. We are provocateurs because confrontation can break through forms of obedience that have become invisible through repetition.
Provocation alone has no value. Shock may capture someone’s attention, but the music and the ideas must give that attention somewhere meaningful to go.
DOGMA places the listener before a mirror. We are not interested in replacing one authority with another or instructing everyone to reach the same conclusions. The purpose is to make passive acceptance more difficult. What the listener chooses after that confrontation remains their responsibility.
8. As your audience continues to grow internationally, have you found that fans from different countries interpret your music and its symbolism in different ways?
Absolutely. Symbols carry different histories depending on the culture observing them.
Some audiences immediately connect with the religious conflict and blasphemous imagery. Others respond more strongly to the sexuality, the horror, the theatrical performance or the idea of resisting imposed authority. Certain listeners enter DOGMA through the music and discover the philosophy later. Others are attracted by the visual world before they understand the narrative.
We welcome those different interpretations. DOGMA should create questions rather than dictate one mandatory reading.
What remains consistent across countries is the recognition of the central conflict: obedience against personal judgment, guilt against desire and inherited morality against personal ownership. The symbols may change meaning as they travel, but that confrontation appears to be universal.
Above every individual interpretation, image or person stands the message. People may embody DOGMA, contribute to it and carry it forward, but no individual is greater than the philosophy, the music and the universe itself. DOGMA must endure beyond any one person.
We want to give a voice to those who recognize these truths within themselves but have never dared to speak them aloud.
9. Looking back at everything the band has achieved over the past year, what has been the most rewarding moment for DOGMA so far?
The sold out European headline shows were among the most rewarding moments because they represented a direct choice from the audience.
Festivals and support tours are important ways to reach new people, but a sold-out headline show means that the audience came specifically to experience DOGMA’s world. Seeing that happen repeatedly across different countries confirmed that the connection was real and that it extended beyond individual songs, online attention or visual curiosity.
We also shared many stages with Lord of the Lost, and we are deeply grateful to them for the opportunity to bring DOGMA before so many audiences throughout Europe. Those shows allowed new Sinners to discover the project, while the headline dates showed us how many were ready to enter the complete ritual.
Experiencing that same intensity throughout Latin America gave the achievement an even greater meaning. Different cities, languages and cultures responded with the same sense of recognition.
After such an intense run of shows across Europe, the United Kingdom and Latin America, ending the season on major festival stages felt like the consecration of an extraordinary chapter.
10. Finally, with “My Matricidal” opening the next chapter of your story, what can fans expect from DOGMA for the remainder of 2026, and where do you see this journey leading next?
The remainder of 2026 will focus on new music, visual creation and the foundations of DOGMA’s next major chapter.
Our next planned release will transform a familiar song through DOGMA’s musical, visual and philosophical universe.
Work will also continue toward the second album. “Fate Unblinds” and “My Matricidal” have established its narrative and emotional territory: false destiny, corrupted family, betrayal, death and awakening. The consequences of those events will continue to shape what follows.
The journey is leading toward a larger and more ambitious incarnation of DOGMA. Fans can expect new revelations, more ambitious music and a universe that continues expanding. Some truths will be exposed. Others will remain hidden until the correct moment.
You shape your fate.